Improvement in carriage-curtain fastenings



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

JOHN ZIMMERMAN, OF POWHATAN, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-CURTAIN FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,665, dated August 29, 1871.

T o all 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN ZIMMERMAN, of Powhatan, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Carriage-Curtain Fastenin gs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to carriage-curtain fast eners; and consists in the novel construction and arrangement of metal strips, together with certain locking devices, as hereinafter explained.

In the drawing, Figure l is a front or plan view. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line .r a', Fig. 1, also showing in dotted lines the curtain rolled up. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line y y of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a plan View of a part detached.

As is well known, carriage-curtains are usually fastened byineans of eyes in the curtains, which are passed over buttons or studs driven or secured into the frame of the carriagetop. These eyes or holes in a little time become badly worn, and that portion ofthe curtain between the points of fastenings becomes curled and the whole curtain gets out of shape. To remedy these defects in this method of fastening the curtain is the object of my invention.

In the drawing, A, Fig. 1, is a section of a carriage-top, including two of the standards of the frame. The curtain B is connected at the top in the usual manner, and is provided along its sides with holes or eyes, through which staples a, attached to the standards C, are passed. At or near the upper end of the standards (l, and outside ofthe curtain, are pivoted light metal strips or bars D, of sufficient length to extend nearly to the bottom of the curtain, and provided with slots corresponding with the holes in the curtain for the loop of the staples a to pass through, as shown in Fig. l, and also provided with sliding bolts E `just above the slots, for insertion through the staples (l, by inea-ns of which the curtain is fastened. The curtain is also provided with hooks or catches b near its side edges, and they are engaged with the strips or bars D, as shown in said iigure.

By means of these devices it will be seen that the side edges of the curtains can be kept close to the posts of the carriage-frame and secured there, while the hooks g will keep the curtains smooth laterally.

When it is desired to roll the curtain up it is only necessary to release the bolts E and hooks g. It can then be done in the usual manner, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the metal strip or bar secured in place as before.

Instead of having the metal holding-strips D made in one piece, they may consist of two pieces hin ged together, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so that it can be folded and fastened up with the curtain, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. Instead of slidingbolts E and hooks g, other suitable devices may be used.

Having thus described my invention7 what I claim is- 1. In a carriage-curtain fastener, the metallic strips -or bars D, made of a single piece or of two pieces hinged together, constructed substantially as described.

2. The combination of theholdingstrips D, sliding bolts E, staples a., and hooks g, or their equivalents7 substantially as described.

JOHN ZIMMERMAN.

Witnesses H. B. MUNN, PHIL. T. DODGE. 

